File Archiving Post Movie iMovie 08

First, iMovie 08 allowed me to make my first movie(s) with very little up front learning. I know others have been disappointed with '08, but it worked for me and my needs. I have "shared" the movies to the media browser and made DVD's using iDVD. The project involved editing down over 5 hours of captured video to a half dozen movie clips of 3-9 minutes each. Now I want to take the raw video off my internal hard drive. I am a recent PC convert and sometimes mac file handling confuses me (due to my PC background). Assuming I attach an external drive, what steps should I take to transfer the files to an external drive and still maintain the ability to go back to my files complete with key words and favorites?

welcome dohearne to the  boards..
you incidently posted your question at the iMHD board .. which is for vers. 5 .. your question relates to vers. 8 ...
all iLife apps (iPhoto, iTunes...) have their own, very elaborated file management.. the goo' ol' +'manually create & name my own folders on drive d:/e:/f:/..'+ doesn't work here AND could cause trouble..
luckily, Apple included the idea of de-locating the Events Folder to an ext. HDD..
follow my illustrated advice given on my website:
http://karsten.schluter.googlepages.com/im08tricks
(Project Library (and Events) on External Harddrive) ...

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    8/28/14 4:57:50.201 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
    8/28/14 4:58:35.745 PM acwebsecagent[127]: Connection : Auth key is not provided or is invalid, applying connection failure policy. CMode : 2 TMode : 1
    8/28/14 4:58:35.745 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
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    8/28/14 4:58:56.052 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
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    8/28/14 4:58:56.342 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
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    8/28/14 4:58:56.411 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
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    8/28/14 4:58:56.696 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
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    8/28/14 4:58:56.808 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
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    8/28/14 4:59:26.660 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
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    8/28/14 4:59:26.840 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
    8/28/14 4:59:26.864 PM acwebsecagent[127]: Connection : Auth key is not provided or is invalid, applying connection failure policy. CMode : 2 TMode : 1
    8/28/14 4:59:26.864 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
    8/28/14 4:59:26.984 PM acwebsecagent[127]: Connection : Auth key is not provided or is invalid, applying connection failure policy. CMode : 2 TMode : 1
    8/28/14 4:59:26.984 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
    8/28/14 4:59:27.069 PM acwebsecagent[127]: Connection : Auth key is not provided or is invalid, applying connection failure policy. CMode : 2 TMode : 1
    8/28/14 4:59:27.069 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
    8/28/14 4:59:27.079 PM acwebsecagent[127]: Connection : Auth key is not provided or is invalid, applying connection failure policy. CMode : 2 TMode : 1
    8/28/14 4:59:27.079 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
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    8/28/14 4:59:27.390 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
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    8/28/14 4:59:27.391 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
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    8/28/14 4:59:27.436 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
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    8/28/14 4:59:27.443 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
    8/28/14 4:59:27.479 PM acwebsecagent[127]: Connection : Auth key is not provided or is invalid, applying connection failure policy. CMode : 2 TMode : 1
    8/28/14 4:59:27.479 PM acwebsecagent[127]: OnConnectionFailure : Fail Open - Reason = Unable to verify the license key
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    8/28/14 4:59:31.036 PM acwebsecagent[127]: DownloadUpdatedConfig : Failed to download updated config. Host hostedconfig.scansafe.net. Code 0x80004005

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